Thanks Johan, Unfortunately I run into all 4 issues you have mentioned. And the views is my huge part of my site.
I got about 50k-60k page view per day, about 40k nodes. It is really a pain to make drupal run fast. I feel drupal query the db tooooooo much. I understand I can get some performance boost by writing my own code, find replacement etc, but that costs me too much if I can use hardware to solve the same problem. and Yes I know I will run to same problem again when the site grows to some point. I will definitely try your advice, such as memcache. Thanks! If anyone else has more advice on the 2 server options, please let me know. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Johan De Meersman <vegiv...@tuxera.be>wrote: > Switch CMSes, you'll be better off. I have the pain of running Drupal, too. > > Your DB host is probably good enough, unless you're doing insane amounts of > page views. What you need is Drupal optimisations. Here's just a few: > > - drupal keeps both it's sessions and cache in the DB. Change to memcache > - the views module is horrible. Get rid of it and write your own queries > - for pete's sake don't turn on the watchdog module, especially on debug. > That, too goes in your db > - avoid taxonomy - it does evil hiearchical queries > > et cetera ad nauseam :-) > > > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:31 PM, shamu...@gmail.com <shamu...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I have a 1.5G database which feeds a CMS web application (Drupal). >> >> Right now I am hosting it with a 1.5G RAM VPS and I feel it is too slow. >> IO >> and CPU are high. So I am planning to upgrade it to a dedicated serer. >> >> Here are two choice of my server: >> >> 1. Intel Pentium G6950 (Dual Core), 2xSATA Drive (no RAID), 8G RAM >> 2. Intel Xeon X3210 (Quad Core), 2XSATA drive (no RAID), 4G RAM. >> >> I know the best way to do this is to benchmark the two servers, but I >> can't >> do that, can only pick one. Could anyone of you tell me which one is >> better >> for higher MySQL performance, based on your experience? >> >> Thanks. >> > > > > -- > Bier met grenadyn > Is als mosterd by den wyn > Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel > Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel >
